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Are They Waning?

By RICHARD GOLDSTEIN ();

December 31, 1967,

, Section Arts & Leisure, Page 62, Column , words

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THE Beatles are clowngurus of the Sixties. Their jester's approach to "serious" music and "deep" thought clamors for interpretation, and their intentional embrace of ambiguity sets a tempting critical trap: how hard it is to resist when Ideas are the bait.

December 31, 1967

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